It is not currently sort-able, but I am working on it.
Map Location | Item | Stat | Description |
Abandoned Car Fort | Skill Book | Barter | Left of the ammo boxes. |
Abandoned Car Fort | Skill Book | Medicine | To the south, past the wrecked train and radiated zone, in between some Ant Egg Clutches, next to the corpse of a Raider. The corpse may not appear in all games, but the loot should still be there, albeit a bit harder to spot. |
Alexandria Arms | Skill Book | Explosives | On the first floor, southern-most part of the building. On a bookshelf next to a fire hose box. |
Alexandria Arms | Skill Book | Small Guns | On a desk on the second floor, near a terminal. |
Anchorage Memorial | Skill Book | Big Guns | In the Anchorage Memorial Service Entrance, in the Utility Room. |
Anchorage Memorial | Skill Book | Medicine | In Anchorage Memorial Facility, on the bottom floor in the clinic on a table above the safe. |
Anchorage Memorial | Skill Book | Repair | In Anchorage Memorial Facility, on the bottom floor in the safe (Average). |
Andale | Skill Book | Melee | In Smiths' basement. |
Andale | Skill Book | Repair | To the east, in a truck on the road. The truck is also an easy find by going NW from the Nuka-Cola Plant, straight uphill. |
Andale | Skill Book | Unarmed | In Smiths' basement. |
Andale or Fairfax Ruins | Skill Book | Barter | In the Concrete Treehouse halfway between Andale and Fairfax Ruins. |
Arefu | Bobblehead | Repair | Evan King's House (requires 50 Lockpick, no Karma cost). As soon as you enter, look to your left. It is on the white table. |
Arlington Cemetery N | Skill Book | Big Guns | In the Arlington Utility tunnels. Up a set of stairs on the left. It's on a shelf. |
Arlington Cemetery N | Skill Book | Science | In Arlington House, on the kitchen table. |
Arlington Cemetery N | Bobblehead | Luck | In the Arlington House on a hill near the center of the cemetery. It is on a shelf in the basement. |
Arlington Library | Skill Book | Science | In the Arlington Library, upstairs from the lobby to the right, on a desk in an office with two sofas. |
Arlington Library | Skill Book | Barter | Media Archive: on a table with a cofee machine, in a room with a pool table and a nuka cola vending machine. North-west part of the map. |
Arlington Library | Skill Book | Energy | South of the library, in the Talon Company camp, on top of a round table on the highest level. |
Arlington Library | Skill Book | Lockpick | Media Archive: The desk flanked by two sets of microfiche readers in the room with the safe (it's the southern-most room) that is very close to the Children's Wing door. A battle with raiders may knock the book off the desk; check the floor if there is nothing on the desk. |
Arlington Library | Skill Book | Small Guns | In the Pulowski Preservation Shelter immediately outside and to the the north. |
Arlington Library | Skill Book | Small Guns | Top floor of the Children's Wing. To get there, you have to go through the Media Wing. |
Arlington Library | Skill Book | Speech | Children's Wing, it's on a shelf in a break room. |
Arlington/Falls Church Metro | Skill Book | Big Guns | On a chair inside an open container on the way to the Arlington Cemetery exit. |
Bethesda Ruins | Bobblehead | Lockpick | Bethesda Offices East, second floor: on a desk under a safe, with an active lamp. |
Bethesda Ruins | Skill Book | Science | In Bethesda Offices West, on the main desk on the ground floor. |
Bethesda Ruins | Skill Book | Barter | In Bethesda Underworks, on a bucket sitting on a bench found right after coming from the tunnel at the entrance. |
Bethesda Ruins | Skill Book | Barter | To the east, in The Raid Shack, on a coffee table in the bedroom on the second floor of the Shack. |
Bethesda Ruins | Skill Book | Big Guns | In Bethesda Offices East, on a Raider with a Flamer normally on the top floor. respawns every 73 hours! |
Bethesda Ruins | Skill Book | Melee | In Bethesda Underworks, go down the stairs and into the side passage off of the train tracks in a small room. |
Bethesda Ruins | Skill Book | Repair | In Bethesda Offices West, on the third floor at the bottom of a wooden crate on a desk under some other stuff. |
Bethesda Ruins | Skill Book | Sneak | In Bethesda Offices East, on a desk with a typewriter and 2 missiles. |
Bethesda Ruins | Skill Book | Unarmed | In Bethesda Underworks, go down the stairs and into the side passage off of the train tracks in a small room. |
Big Town | Skill Book | Medicine | Red's Clinic, in the kitchen. |
Broadcast Tower KB5 | Skill Book | Lockpick | In the drainage chamber on the floor in front of a locked door. |
Broadcast Tower KB5 | Skill Book | Lockpick | To the west-northwest, in the ruins of a house occupied by Raiders, on a shelf along the wall that is shared with a freezer filled with gore. It's next to the plates on the shelves. |
Broadcast Tower KB5 | Skill Book | Melee | In the small Raider camp immediately southwest of the tower buried beneath some tin cans in a box. |
Broadcast Tower KB5 | Skill Book | Science | On highway bridge between Broadcast Tower KB5 and SatCom Array NW-07c, as you approach from the east, the corpse of a Scientist will be blown out of the back of a truck. The book will be on the scientist and is much more easily looted from any body parts that remain on the bridge rather than what has fallen into the river below the bridge. (Sometimes the scientist may not spawn at all.) |
Broadcast Tower KB5 | Skill Book | Unarmed | In the small Raider camp immediately southwest of the tower buried beneath some tin cans in a box. |
Broadcast Tower KT8 | Skill Book | Sneak | In the Signal Sierra Romeo drainage ditch room. |
Broadcast Tower LP8 | Skill Book | Science | In the Signal Echo Foxtrot sealed cistern. |
Canterbury Commons | Skill Book | Melee | Derek Pacion carries one. Must be stolen. |
Canterbury Commons | Skill Book | Repair | In Dominic and Machete`s house on desk. |
Canterbury Commons | Skill Book | Speech | In the old robot factory during The Superhuman Gambit quest, there is a copy lying on a desk in the Mechanist's Forge. |
Canterbury Commons | Skill Book | Unarmed | Derek Pacion carries one. Must be stolen. |
Capitol Building | Skill Book | Barter | In Capitol Building East Entrance, on a desk in an office area. |
Capitol Building | Skill Book | Big Guns | In Capitol Building West Entrance, on a table in the dome, where you fight the Super Mutant Behemoth; this one is likely to have been knocked off in the firefight. |
Capitol Building | Skill Book | Energy | In Capitol Building West Entrance, on a table behind a Hard locked door. |
Capitol Building | Skill Book | Medicine | In Hall of Columns, upper level on a railing near a Talon Company sniper. |
Capitol Building | Skill Book | Sneak | In Hall of Columns, behind a Hard locked door. |
Capitol Building | Skill Book | Speech | In Conference Hall, on a podium. |
Capitol Building | Skill Book | Speech | South of the entrance to The Capitol Building in Seward Square, inside of a Pulowski Preservation Shelter. |
Charnel House | Skill Book | Explosives | Second floor of the ruined house, across the plank bridge. |
Chaste Acres Dairy Farm | Skill Book | Melee | On second floor of the barn, lying next to a bed. |
Chaste Acres Dairy Farm | Skill Book | Unarmed | On second floor of the barn, lying next to a bed. |
Chryslus Building | Skill Book | Science | on a shelf in the southwestern-most room of the Building Basement. |
Chryslus Building | Skill Book | Small Guns | Reception Area, northern room. |
Citadel | Skill Book | Explosives | In Citadel Laboratory, in the restrooms in a wooden crate inside one of the stalls. |
Citadel | Skill Book | Small Guns | In A Ring, in The Den, under one of the beds. |
Cliffside Cavern | Skill Book | Melee | In the sniper nest in the main hall, at the base of one of the generators. (From the central platform with burn barrel and chess board, it is the platform directly northeast. Bright lights - large generator - wooden housing. Grognak is on top of that housing.) |
Cliffside Cavern | Skill Book | Sneak | In the Raider outpost on top of a small bookshelf in the northwestern chamber. Beware the raider with the missile launcher; he can knock the book a fair distance and there are many places for it to get lost. |
Cliffside Cavern | Skill Book | Unarmed | In the sniper nest in the main hall, at the base of one of the generators. (From the central platform with burn barrel and chess board, it is the platform directly northeast. Bright lights - large generator - wooden housing. Grognak is on top of that housing.) |
Clifftop Shacks | Skill Book | Melee | In a shack. Beware of the Super Mutant Master. |
Clifftop Shacks | Skill Book | Unarmed | In a shack. Beware of the Super Mutant Master. |
Corvega Factory | Skill Book | Big Guns | In a truck to the south. |
Corvega Factory | Skill Book | Melee | North-northwest of the Corvega Factory is a Sewer Grate to Drainage Tunnels. Go in, and into the room ahead to your right. Grognak is on the bookshelf straight ahead as you enter. (This is the Yankee Bravo radio signal origination point.) |
Corvega Factory | Skill Book | Repair | On a desk on the second floor near the Ant Queen. |
Corvega Factory | Skill Book | Science | Entrance, up the stairs and to your left. It's sitting on a desk. |
Corvega Factory | Skill Book | Science | In a waste container to the south. You will need to jump in from the cliff above. |
Corvega Factory | Skill Book | Sneak | In a truck to the south, in a Very Hard footlocker (Same truck also has a U.S. Army: 30 Handy Flamethrower Recipes). |
Corvega Factory | Skill Book | Speech | Directly forward from the entrance on a counter. |
Corvega Factory | Skill Book | Unarmed | North-northwest of the Corvega Factory is a Sewer Grate to Drainage Tunnels. Go in, and into the room ahead to your right. Grognak is on the bookshelf straight ahead as you enter. (This is the Yankee Bravo radio signal origination point.) |
County Sewer Mainline | Skill Book | Science | In a big three-floored room next to a computer terminal, behind a locked gate. |
DCTA Tunnel 014-B Potomac | Skill Book | Medicine | In the room with Mirelurk King. |
Deathclaw Sanctuary | Bobblehead | Endurance | Inside entrance, down the ramp, on a small platform next to the rotting brahmin corpse. |
Deathclaw Sanctuary | Skill Book | Energy | In the first area on a table next to the Endurance Bobblehead. |
Deathclaw Sanctuary | Skill Book | Explosives | Outside the entrance in a locked footlocker. |
Dickerson Tabernacle Chapel | Skill Book | Small Guns | In the Tabernacle, among the ammo boxes on the north side. |
Drowned Devil's Crossing | Skill Book | Lockpick | In the red truck trailer near the bridge. |
Dry Sewers | Skill Book | Repair | In the Dry Sewers that lead from Dupont Circle to Our Lady of Hope Hospital. |
Dukov's Place | Skill Book | Explosives | To the south close to the river, on a small table in a Raider "fort" on the coast. |
Dunwich Building | Bobblehead | Melee Weapons | Go through the Dunwich Building to get to the Forsaken Dunwich Ruins which lead to the Virulant Underchambers. It will be in the center of a room near the exit to Dunwich Building mixed in with some cans and bottles. |
Dunwich Building | Skill Book | Repair | In Forsaken Dunwich Ruins, on a shelf in a small room. |
Dupont Circle Station | Skill Book | Speech | Near the entrance from Dupont, in a bucket on table in first room to the right with a Protectron and a Computer Terminal. |
Dupont East | Skill Book | Barter | Inside Lady Frumperton's Fashions. |
Dupont Northeast | Skill Book | Big Guns | Found in the Sunken Sewers on a locked safe (Average). |
Everglow National Campground | Skill Book | Small Guns | In the silver trailer that serves as the main Raider lair. |
Evergreen Mills | Bobblehead | Barter | Bazaar, in a dark cave/nook in the corner of the room to the right of Smiling Jack. Jump over the work bench, it's on the right-most shelves. |
Evergreen Mills | Skill Book | Big Guns | Second room in the Southern Shack, on a bookshelf. |
Evergreen Mills | Skill Book | Energy | In the Foundry there is also a copy of Duck and Cover! lying next to a dead body on the ledge above where the broken terminal is. To reach it go up the stairs and jump off onto the ledge below. Note that there are two broken terminals, one at the top of the stairs, and one on the bottom floor in the corner room. The book is above the one on the bottom floor. |
Evergreen Mills | Skill Book | Explosives | foundry: Lying next to a dead body on the ledge above the broken terminal. |
F.Scott Key Trail & Compound | Skill Book | Explosives | On a picnic table. |
Fairfax Metro Station | Skill Book | Sneak | Bottom level, laying on a slab of concrete. |
Fairfax Ruins | Skill Book | Big Guns | In the Car Dealership building to the east, on the upper level where there are smaller, ruined vehicles. You need to jump onto the coffee table in the corner to get to there. |
Falls Church | Skill Book | Lockpick | Office Building, on a desk. Watch out for traps. |
Falls Church/Mason Dst Metro | Skill Book | Big Guns | In Franklin Metro Utility, through an underwater section of the subway tunnels near a lot of radiation. Can also be reached from the subway entrance next to Hubris Comics |
Falls Church/Mason Dst Metro | Skill Book | Explosives | In a ticket booth hidden behind a barricade near the Glowing Ones. |
Falls Church/Mason Dst Metro | Skill Book | Lockpick | In Franklin Metro Utility, on the lower floor to the right of the turret. It is on top of the locked mine box (Average). |
Falls Church/Mason Dst Metro | Skill Book | Medicine | In a bathroom on top of a first aid box mounted on the wall. |
Falls Church/Mason Dst Metro | Skill Book | Small Guns | In Franklin Metro Utility, downstairs in the center of the second room, in a gated off area on a desk with a shotgun, some missiles, and a Stealthboy. |
Farragut West Metro Station | Skill Book | Explosives | Just north of Super-Duper Mart, in a camp under a bridge. |
Farragut West Station | Skill Book | Big Guns | Bottom of the room with the ghouls, behind a locked door (Average). |
Farragut West Station | Skill Book | Energy | In a room with terminal and safe. |
Five Axles Rest Stop | Skill Book | Big Guns | In the truck that serves as the main raider lair. |
Flooded Metro | Skill Book | Lockpick | In the Raider camp southeast of the southern entrance, on a raised platform. |
Flooded Metro | Skill Book | Small Guns | First big open room behind some pipes with a skeleton. |
Flooded Metro | Skill Book | Sneak | Just outside the southern entrance, inside a Pulowski Preservation Shelter. |
Foggy Bottom Station | Skill Book | Energy | In the room with the Protectron on the computer console adjacent to the Protectron charging pad. |
Fort Bannister | Skill Book | Energy | On the roof of a lower catwalk along with a ham radio and ammo box, directly beneath the player when entering the missile silo from the sewer access point. |
Fort Bannister | Skill Book | Science | A building in the northwest corner of the fort. This is NOT connected to the underground part of the fort! The book is on the top level in a room where there is a fat man and a mini nuke as well. |
Fort Bannister | Skill Book | Small Guns | Bunker Area, in Locker room on Top of a Gun Cabinet) |
Fort Constantine | Bobblehead | Big Guns | CO Quarters (little bungalow), in the basement. It is in an open safe along with some caps, and the ICBM launchcode. |
Fort Constantine | Skill Book | Explosives | On a desk in the Launch Control Bunker. |
Fort Constantine | Skill Book | Medicine | Bomb Storage, on a table next to a Fatman where you find the T-51b Power Armor. |
Fort Constantine | Skill Book | Melee | Personnel Offices, first floor, behind a Hard locked door. |
Fort Constantine | Skill Book | Science | Launch Control Bunker from the CO Quarters of Fort Constantine, on a desk in the NE corner. |
Fort Constantine | Skill Book | Small Guns | Behind a Very Hard locked door in the Bomb Storage of Fort Constantine accessed through the Launch Control Bunker. |
Fort Constantine | Skill Book | Small Guns | CO Quarters of Fort Constantine, on the bed. |
Fort Constantine | Skill Book | Sneak | CO Quarters, on the basement floor, to the right of the safe. |
Fort Constantine | Skill Book | Unarmed | Personnel Offices, first floor, behind a Hard locked door. |
Freedom Street Station | Skill Book | Lockpick | On a table where the Scavenger trader resides. |
Galaxy News Radio | Skill Book | Science | Rec room with Three Dog, on the desk next to the radio with other goodies. Must be stolen. |
Georgetown | Skill Book | Melee | West, you can get here by running through Tepid Sewers, it's on the second level of the building the super mutants are around, on a shelf with the ammo crates. |
Georgetown | Skill Book | Speech | In McClellan Family Townhome. |
Georgetown | Skill Book | Unarmed | West, you can get here by running through Tepid Sewers, it's on the second level of the building the super mutants are around, on a shelf with the ammo crates. |
Georgetown/The Mall Metro | Skill Book | Sneak | Leaning on a cash register inside a ticket booth. |
Germantown Police HQ | Skill Book | Explosives | About one third of the way to Minefield, slightly north of the line connecting Germantown to Minefield, in a small Raider camp in a train wreck. On the ground next to the bathtub. |
Germantown Police HQ | Skill Book | Explosives | From the entrance to the fence maze outside of Germantown Police HQ, head south for ten yards or so. You'll find a destroyed road. Follow that south to an intersection by two ruined houses. Then follow the road west for a little while and you will see a house. Look on the bookshelf. |
Germantown Police HQ | Skill Book | Lockpick | Basement: in the locked weapons closet. |
Germantown Police HQ | Skill Book | Medicine | Upper floor, on the conference room's table. Note: There is a mine right beyond the door in this room. If you set it off instead of disarming it the book can be sent flying off the table and be difficult to find. Note: there are two rooms with long wooden tables on this floor. The conference room has blue cushy chairs around the table. |
Germantown Police HQ | Skill Book | Speech | On the ground floor, in the corner of a classroom on the child-sized rusty desk. |
Grayditch | Skill Book | Lockpick | To the west, in the Talon Company Camp. |
Grayditch | Skill Book | Small Guns | An abandoned home in eastern Grayditch. |
Grayditch | Skill Book | Sneak | At Scavenger's Bridge. Start from Grayditch and go South along the road and up the ramp. You'll pass a sewer on the left with Ghouls by the entrance. Take a right and onto the bridge where there's a merchant. The skill book will be on one of the shelves. |
Greener Pastures Disposal | Bobblehead | Agility | In the office, on the desk next to an Average locked terminal. |
Greener Pastures Disposal | Skill Book | Science | In the back end of a truck in the southwest near a dead scientist. |
Greener Pastures Disposal | Skill Book | Medicine | Silo Door to Makeshift Shack in the northwest area. |
Grisly Diner | Skill Book | Barter | On a shelf. |
Grisly Diner | Skill Book | Big Guns | In the bus to the north. |
Hallowed Moors Cemetery | Skill Book | Science | In the lectern. |
Hallowed Moors Cemetery | Skill Book | Medicine | On the bookshelf. |
Hamilton's Hideaway | Skill Book | Explosives | In the Raider's lair on the counter by some Cherry Bombs and a bottle of Nuka-Cola Quantum. |
Hamilton's Hideaway | Skill Book | Small Guns | In the locked weapons stash. The key is obtained by completing Galaxy News Radio (quest). |
Hubris Comics | Skill Book | Barter | Once you go in the door, there is a computer terminal directly ahead which will explode. It is on a shelf to the left of the terminal. |
Hubris Comics | Skill Book | Melee | In the area where Mad John Wes is located. |
Hubris Comics | Skill Book | Repair | In Hubris Comics Utility, on a desk close to the Grayditch sewer exit. |
Hubris Comics | Skill Book | Repair | Just outside the building, inside of the Pulowski Preservation Shelter. |
Hubris Comics | Skill Book | Unarmed | In the area where Mad John Wes is located. |
Irradiated Metro | Skill Book | Sneak | On the second level from the top. |
Jalbert Brothers Waste Disposal | Skill Book | Barter | To the north along the road, in the northern enterable shack. |
Jalbert Brothers Waste Disposal | Skill Book | Explosives | To the north along the road, in the southeastern enterable shack with the pile of skeletal remains. Behind the turned over table next to the Mini Nuke. |
Jalbert Brothers Waste Disposal | Skill Book | Lockpick | To the north along the road, outside the center enterable shack. In a turned over refrigerator to left of the door. |
Jalbert Brothers Waste Disposal | Skill Book | Medicine | In the office on the top of a bookshelf. |
Jocko's Pop & Gas Stop | Skill Book | Energy | Inside. |
Jocko's Pop & Gas Stop | Skill Book | Explosives | In the Signal Sierra Victor drainage chamber to the east of the activating antenna mast. |
Jury St. Tunnels | Skill Book | Speech | On a safe where you kill Ryan Brigg in the Jury St. Tunnels. |
Jury Street Metro Station | Skill Book | Science | On a desk in Drainage Chamber accessed through a manhole North of where you get the Radio Signal Oscar Tango, which is directly south of Jury Street Metro Station. |
Jury Street Metro Station | Skill Book | Big Guns | In a truck located at the mid-point between Jury Street Metro Station and VAPL-84 Power Station. |
Jury Street Metro Station | Skill Book | Energy | Set off 'reaction' in Gold Ribbon Grocers, which knocks a skeleton and some loot from the second story in the southwest corner. |
Jury Street Metro Station | Skill Book | Energy | Southwest of the entrance, south of the unmarked Calverton church in a broken house. |
Jury Street Metro Station | Skill Book | Lockpick | Set off 'reaction' in Gold Ribbon Grocers, which knocks a skeleton and some loot from the second story in the southwest corner. |
Jury Street Metro Station | Skill Book | Repair | On the workbench. |
Jury Street Metro Station | Skill Book | Speech | Southwest of the entrance, inside the unmarked Calverton church. |
L.O.B. Enterprises | Skill Book | Lockpick | East Wing on CEO's Desk. |
L.O.B. Enterprises | Skill Book | Sneak | In L.O.B. Enterprises Archives, on a desk with a computer. |
La Maison Beauregard | Skill Book | Big Guns | On the floor beside a desk with a cash register on your left when you enter La Maison Beauregard Lobby. |
L'Enfant | Skill Book | Big Guns | In L'Enfant, northeast corner (east of L'Enfant Plaza), in is a small camp underneath a partially-collapsed overpass. |
L'Enfant | Skill Book | Science | In between L'Enfant and L'Enfant South, in a Pulowski Preservation Shelter |
Little Lamplight | Skill Book | Barter | In Murder Pass On a toilet in the southeast corner of the room north of the entrance. |
Little Lamplight | Skill Book | Big Guns | In Murder Pass, in the southwestern most tunnel. |
Mama Dolce's | Skill Book | Barter | Food Distribution: Opposite the entrance. |
Mama Dolce's | Skill Book | Lockpick | The dug-out basement: next to two locked safes (one average, one hard) and three upturned desks. |
Mama Dolce's | Skill Book | Repair | In Mama Dolce's Processed Foods, to the left side. |
Mama Dolce's | Skill Book | Small Guns | In a bathroom stall on the ground floor underneath a pile of burned books. |
Mama Dolce's | Skill Book | Small Guns | Next to a sniper who is stationed above the loading dock. (First time I came here I killed the sniper but couldn't find the book. But after leaving and then returning, the book magically appeared. So if you don't see the book the first time, eventually it should appear after you've gone back to this area several times). |
Mama Dolce's | Skill Book | Sneak | On the ground next to a Chinese Remnant Soldier who is stationed as a sniper on the upper level of the loading dock. |
Marigold Station | Skill Book | Science | In Queen Ant's Hatchery, in the lair of the Marigold Ant Queen on a desk next to a terminal. *May have been knocked on the ground next to the desk, check around there if it isn't on the desk. |
Mason District South | Skill Book | Small Guns | Second story of the building north of the entrance. The building overlooks a park with a bunch of mutants roaming around. |
Mason Dixon Salvage | Skill Book | Energy | To the northeast is an Abandoned Tent with the book inside, on a shelf between two Ammunition Boxes. |
Mason Dixon Salvage | Skill Book | Energy | Eastern shack. |
Mason Dixon Salvage | Skill Book | Lockpick | On the floor next to the footlocker in the Abandoned Shack, the one that doesn't have the broken refrigerator inside. |
Mason Dixon Salvage | Skill Book | Medicine | In the Abandoned Shack with the broken refrigerator, sitting on the floor. |
MDPL Mass Relay Station | Skill Book | Small Guns | On a desk. |
MDPL-05 Power Station | Skill Book | Repair | Leaning against a toolbox. |
MDPL-21 Power Station | Skill Book | Energy | On a workbench. |
MDPL-21 Power Station | Skill Book | Medicine | North-northeast of MDPL-21 Power Station, at the very top of the map is an irradiated pool marked by toxic barrels with a shipping crate in the back. Swim through the crate and you'll find a small cave with the book on a desk. |
Megaton | Bobblehead | Strength | Lucas Simms' house, on the desk in the bedroom (the door to your immediate left at the top of stairs) on the second floor. His house is directly to the right when you enter Megaton. |
Megaton | Skill Book | Energy | A copy can be found if you buy the Science theme from Moira Brown. It is in the bookcase next to the stairs. |
Megaton | Skill Book | Melee | In Jericho's apartment. |
Megaton | Skill Book | Sneak | One can be found on a shelf in a ruined house at the top of the hill between Megaton and the Super-Duper Mart. The house is next to a big, rusty, domed silo. |
Megaton | Skill Book | Speech | After completing the Arlington Library portion of The Wasteland Survival Guide quest, answer with "The Library is still there like it was..." and Moira will give you a copy. |
Megaton | Skill Book | Speech | Can be found in your Megaton House after purchasing the Love Machine Theme. |
Megaton | Skill Book | Unarmed | In Jericho's apartment. |
Meresti Service Tunnels | Skill Book | Lockpick | On the table near Robert's bed (the guy who guards the entrance to Family gang encampment.) Must be stolen. |
Meresti Station | Skill Book | Speech | Under a box on top of the train. |
Meresti Trainyard | Skill Book | Lockpick | Sitting in a bathtub in one of the demolished houses south-southeast of the yard. |
Metro Central | Skill Book | Repair | Near Foggy Bottom Station exit, behind a locked gate in generator area on a table. |
Metro Junction | Skill Book | Melee | Close to the Vernon Square entrance/exit. It's halfway down to the platform; a board leads over the railing, and there is a table with a lamp below. |
Metro Junction | Skill Book | Unarmed | Close to the Vernon Square entrance/exit. It's halfway down to the platform; a board leads over the railing, and there is a table with a lamp below. |
Minefield | Skill Book | Lockpick | In Gibson House, sitting in the office on the desk. |
Minefield | Skill Book | Medicine | In Benson House, upstairs in the main bedroom on a desk. |
Minefield | Skill Book | Melee | In Gillian House, upstairs on the child's bed. |
Minefield | Skill Book | Unarmed | In Gillian House, upstairs on the child's bed. |
Mirelurk Nesting Hole | Skill Book | Sneak | In a cave northwest and above the main chamber in the south. |
Museum of History | Skill Book | Energy | Near the entrance of the bathroom. |
Museum of History | Skill Book | Medicine | On a shelf in the kitchen of Museum of History, Lower Halls. Eastern side of the map. |
Museum of History | Skill Book | Sneak | Offices. Right of Lincoln's Repeater. |
Museum of Technology | Skill Book | Energy | Atrium: In control room overlooking the entrance, next to the maintenance terminal. |
Museum of Technology | Skill Book | Small Guns | On a desk in a hidden room in the West Wing, near the rocket display. Jump down from above to reach. |
Museum Station | Skill Book | Melee | On a table near the Metro Central exit. |
Museum Station | Skill Book | Sneak | In the ladies room. |
Museum Station | Skill Book | Unarmed | On a table near the Metro Central exit. |
National Archives | Skill Book | Barter | In a strong room, on the side by a safe. |
National Archives | Skill Book | Explosives | Lower level in the NW corner, in a room full of bookshelves. It is sitting on top of a school desk next to a pair of missiles. |
National Archives | Skill Book | Explosives | Sub-basement in the generator room behind a Very Hard locked gate. |
National Archives | Skill Book | Speech | In the secure wing east, next to the safe containing the Bill of Rights. |
National Guard Depot | Bobblehead | Small Guns | National Guard Armory, sitting on a shelf in the sealed storage room in the basement. The switch for the utility door to access the armory is found on the 3rd floor that can only be reached by going through the Depot Training Wing and Depot Offices. |
National Guard Depot | Skill Book | Barter | On the desk in an office area located on the second floor. |
National Guard Depot | Skill Book | Big Guns | in the armory, next to Experimental M.I.R.V. |
National Guard Depot | Skill Book | Energy | In a single room with a door labeled "Authorized Personnel Only" on the lowest floor. |
National Guard Depot | Skill Book | Explosives | Offices: on a long wooden table, that looks to be a bar. |
Nuka-Cola Plant | Skill Book | Big Guns | To the north on a table in Dot's Diner. |
Nuka-Cola Plant | Skill Book | Lockpick | In the factory floor area in the closet with the safe in the room with the computer that has the shipping manifest. |
Nuka-Cola Plant | Skill Book | Repair | Factory floor on the desk, take a right when you first enter the building. |
Nuka-Cola Plant | Skill Book | Science | On the second floor in the office area. |
Nuka-Cola Plant | Skill Book | Sneak | Main entrance, look for a hole in the ceiling with a filing cabinet over it; it's in there. |
Nuka-Cola Plant | Skill Book | Speech | Offices on the second level. |
Oasis | Skill Book | Medicine | After you enter first door in the cave, it is up a path on the left in a crate. |
Old Olney | Skill Book | Small Guns | In a post box next to the crashed Nuka-Cola truck to the east. |
Old Olney Sewer | Skill Book | Explosives | At the end of a rocky tunnel next to a skeleton. |
Our Lady of Hope Hospital | Skill Book | Medicine | In a room of the first floor guarded by a Centaur. |
Our Lady of Hope Hospital | Skill Book | Medicine | Second floor, cantina (room with the gas leak), on a table. |
Paradise Falls | Bobblehead | Speech | Eulogy's Pad, on the table right next to the terminal. |
Ranger Compound | Skill Book | Repair | On the generator in the pantry. |
Raven Rock | Bobblehead | Energy Weapons | On the right desk in Colonel Autumn's bedroom: after you pass the huge door from section 2B to 2C, when two Enclave soldiers come out of the right door, take the left door. |
Reclining Groves Resort Homes | Skill Book | Sneak | In a Scavenger's very hard footlocker on the top floor of a ruined barn east of Reclining Groves Resort Homes. Must be stolen. |
Reclining Groves Resort Homes | Skill Book | Barter | Easternmost destroyed home, on a dresser. |
Reclining Groves Resort Homes | Skill Book | Big Guns | On a hill to the east-northeast, directly northeast of the Scavenger's barn, amongst a heap of tin cans. |
Red Racer Factory | Skill Book | Big Guns | In a Raider camp, located in a dead-end alley to the east. It is at the foot of the bed. |
Red Racer Factory | Skill Book | Energy | On a shelf behind a locked door (Average) in the CEO Offices. |
Red Racer Factory | Skill Book | Medicine | Near the cafeteria, on the east side of the map, on TOP of large machines -- under a bucket behind a toolbox on Factory Floor Level in the Red Racer Factory. Must drop down from a catwalk. |
Red Racer Factory | Skill Book | Melee | Outside in the back of a truck with some toxic waste and a Wastelander. |
Red Racer Factory | Skill Book | Repair | Enter through the front, going to the room straight ahead with a Giant Teddy Bear on a tricycle suspended in the air. If you jump on the barrels to the left of a machine so you are on top there is a tool box with the book next to it. |
Red Racer Factory | Skill Book | Small Guns | To the east, in a Raider camp located in a dead-end alley. |
Red Racer Factory | Skill Book | Unarmed | Outside in the back of a truck with some toxic waste and a Wastelander. |
Regulator HQ | Skill Book | Small Guns | Under bed next to Sonora Cruz. Can only be reached with Lawbringer perk. |
Regulator HQ | Skill Book | Sneak | In a truck trailer on the elevated highway just east of Regulator HQ. |
Relay Tower KX-B8-11 | Skill Book | Medicine | In a drainage tunnel to the southeast. |
Relay Tower KX-B8-11 | Skill Book | Repair | To the south, near Hilltop Farm Ruins: In a flipped over container in a small radiactive pond. |
Relay Tower KX-B8-11 | Skill Book | Small Guns | In an outhouse located at the Hilltop Farm Ruins. |
Republic of Dave | Bobblehead | Perception | In the Museum of Dave, on a bookshelf to the right of the room. |
Rivet City | Bobblehead | Intelligence | Science Lab, downstairs on one of the tables in the center of the lab, next to the lockers. The Science Lab can be reached through the Midship Deck and the Upper Deck. |
Rivet City | Skill Book | Medicine | In Rivet City Bow, in Pinkerton's room. Must be stolen. |
Rivet City | Skill Book | Repair | In Rivet City Bow, in Pinkerton's room. Must be stolen. |
Rivet City | Skill Book | Science | In Rivet City Bow, in Pinkerton's room on the lower-level desk. Must be stolen. |
Rivet City | Skill Book | Speech | Outside of the carrier, northwest of the entrance in a Mutant Camp with a captive. |
RobCo Factory | Skill Book | Energy | Offices and cafeteria, second floor, desk in NW corner of office. |
RobCo Factory | Skill Book | Medicine | Offices and cafeteria, second floor, computer office room, just southeast of the stairs going up. |
RobCo Factory | Skill Book | Science | Factory floor, by the Protectron Pod area to NE, on console. |
RobCo Factory | Skill Book | Speech | Factory floor, on large desk at back of foyer. |
Robot Repair Center | Skill Book | Energy | Next to a broken Protectron on the first floor. |
Rockbreaker's Last Gas | Skill Book | Repair | In an abandoned shack on the cliff to the west, in a wooden box under the workbench. |
Rockbreaker's Last Gas | Skill Book | Small Guns | In the shack on the hills to the west. |
Rockopolis | Bobblehead | Unarmed | Due west of Smith Casey's Garage and due north of Girdershade. The entrance (a large boulder) is below a party banner that is lit up at night. The bobblehead is next to Argyle's body. |
Roosevelt Academy | Skill Book | Medicine | Nurse's Office on the first floor. |
Roosevelt Arts and Athletics Hall | Skill Book | Lockpick | On a desk near a locked safe of the third floor. |
SatCom Array NW-05a | Skill Book | Energy | At the Raider camp to the south. |
SatCom Array NW-05a | Skill Book | Sneak | Near a terminal towards the left upon entering at the ground level. |
SatCom Array NW-07c | Skill Book | Explosives | To the northeast, halfway straight airline towards SatCom Array NW-05a: Down in the valley next to a few car wrecks. It's on the ground next to a skeleton and three ammo boxes. Coordinates (1.4, 2.9) (Horizontal, Vertical Coordinates) according to Fallout 3 Map |
Scrapyard | Skill Book | Big Guns | In John's Treasure Box, an ammo container, in the burned out bus near the red railroad car. You need the key, which can be found on a body in a random encounter. |
Scrapyard | Skill Book | Melee | In John's Treasure Box, in the burned out bus near the red railroad car. You can get the key, which is a random encounter, or you can just pick the lock (hard) |
Scrapyard | Skill Book | Small Guns | In John's Treasure Box, an ammo container, in the burned out bus near the red railroad car. You need the key, which can be found on a body in a random encounter. |
Scrapyard | Skill Book | Speech | In the office. Can only be reached with the Contract Killer perk. |
Scrapyard | Skill Book | Unarmed | In John's Treasure Box, in the burned out bus near the red railroad car. You can get the key, which is a random encounter, or you can just pick the lock (hard) |
Sewer (metro) | Skill Book | Lockpick | Near the debris area on the southeastern tunnel - JP Stash Note will lead you to it. |
Sewer Waystation | Skill Book | Barter | Carried by a named ghoul, Gallo. |
Shalebridge | Skill Book | Science | On a dead researcher in the egg room. The researcher respawns every 72 hours. |
Silver Lining Drive-In | Skill Book | Melee | on a table in a nearby shack. |
Silver Lining Drive-In | Skill Book | Unarmed | on a table in a nearby shack. |
Smith Casey's Garage | Skill Book | Lockpick | In the safe. |
Springvale Elementary | Skill Book | Sneak | At the end of the ant tunnel, under a corpse. |
Springvale Elementary | Skill Book | Explosives | On the upper floor, next to the active computer terminal past the locked library doors. |
Statesman Hotel | Skill Book | Barter | Ground floor, up the stairs to the left, follow hallway left then right, it's the room in the northeast corner. |
Statesman Hotel | Skill Book | Sneak | mid level, on a shelf in a Janitor's room in the an east-west running hallway before the stairs leading to the Statesman Hotel Restaurant door. |
Statesman Hotel Restaurant | Skill Book | Melee | on a shelf in the middle of main room after defeating Super Mutant Master. |
Statesman Hotel Restaurant | Skill Book | Unarmed | on a shelf in the middle of main room after defeating Super Mutant Master. |
Super Duper Mart | Skill Book | Barter | On the counter back by the robot room. |
Super Mutant Bunker | Skill Book | Explosives | In The Mall, north of Museum of Technology. |
Taft Tunnels | Skill Book | Energy | (while escorting Scientists during The Waters of Life quest): next to Nuka Cola Quantum on a green bench. |
Taft Tunnels | Skill Book | Sneak | Near the overflow terminal, behind a screen. |
Takoma Industrial | Skill Book | Big Guns | In the auto shop by Takoma Industrial, just watch out for the Behemoth right outside. |
Takoma Industrial | Skill Book | Speech | Eastern room. |
Talon Company Camp | Skill Book | Explosives | South of the camp towards Red Racer Factory: On a shelf in the Scavenger shack. It is with Spec. Ops and Grognak. Must be stolen. |
Talon Company Camp | Skill Book | Melee | south of the camp towards Red Racer Factory: On shelf in the Scavenger shack. It is with Spec. Ops and Duck and Cover!. You must steal them. |
Talon Company Camp | Skill Book | Unarmed | south of the camp towards Red Racer Factory: On shelf in the Scavenger shack. It is with Spec. Ops and Duck and Cover!. You must steal them. |
Temple of the Union | Skill Book | Barter | In a Raider fortress on top of a highway to the southwest. (Only available after finishing the Head of State quest.) |
Temple of the Union | Skill Book | Melee | In the Enclave camp on the highway nearby, on a table in one of the shacks. (Only available after finishing the Head of State quest.) |
Temple of the Union | Skill Book | Unarmed | In the Enclave camp on the highway nearby, on a table in one of the shacks. (Only available after finishing the Head of State quest.) |
Tenleytown/Friendship Station | Skill Book | Melee | Friendship half. In a small office. Check two sets of lockers: it is placed on the top left shelf. |
Tenleytown/Friendship Station | Skill Book | Speech | In one of the several metal shelves near two Feral ghoul have killed a female mercenary. |
Tenleytown/Friendship Station | Skill Book | Unarmed | Friendship half. In a small office. Check two sets of lockers: it is placed on the top left shelf. |
Tenpenny Tower | Skill Book | Barter | Next to the Love Letter on a desk in Susan Lancaster's room. This book can be found again after helping the ghouls getting into the Tower! |
Tenpenny Tower | Skill Book | Barter | To the east, in Willy's Grocer. |
Tenpenny Tower | Skill Book | Explosives | Just west of the tower, towards Warrington Trainyard, in a broken down house, on top of a shelf |
Tenpenny Tower | Skill Book | Lockpick | Southeast of the tower, on a bookshelf on the second floor of a wrecked building. |
Tenpenny Tower | Skill Book | Science | In your suite in Tenpenny Tower, once you purchase the "Scientist" room theme (Tesla appears in the house in Megaton with this theme). |
Tenpenny Tower | Skill Book | Speech | Can be found in your Tenpenny Suite after purchasing the Love Machine Theme. |
Tenpenny Tower | Skill Book | Speech | It can be found in Tenpenny Tower in Allistair Tenpenny's suite. Book respawns after helping the ghouls get into the Tower. |
Tepid Sewers | Skill Book | Repair | In the Raider hideout (in the tunnels behind sandbags. Enter the hideout, turn left, and enter the small room on your left. The book will be on the right corner behind toolbox (near generator). |
Underworld | Skill Book | Speech | Talk with Tulip - collect for free |
VAPL-58 Power Station | Skill Book | Big Guns | On the roof. |
VAPL-58 Power Station | Skill Book | Repair | On the desk next to computer. |
VAPL-66 Power Station | Skill Book | Repair | On the desk with the broken computer. |
Vault 101 | Bobblehead | Medicine | Dad's medical desk. It can be obtained before you take your G.O.A.T., during Escape! or Trouble on the Homefront. If taken this way, it is in the clinic where you speak to Amata. It is in the clinic's back room on a desk. |
Vault 101 | Skill Book | Melee | A copy will be given to you by Amata in Growing Up Fast during your birthday party. If you don't use it during this quest, it will be in the dresser in your room when you start the Escape! quest. |
Vault 101 | Skill Book | Unarmed | A copy will be given to you by Amata in Growing Up Fast during your birthday party. If you don't use it during this quest, it will be in the dresser in your room when you start the Escape! quest. |
Vault 106 | Bobblehead | Science | After entering the Vault, move downstairs and enter the Living Quarters. Once in the Living Quarters take a left, cross the small bridge in the atrium, then take a right and enter the second door on your left. Follow this hall all the way to the end, kill the insane survivor and cross the room to where the Bobblehead is located. |
Vault 106 | Skill Book | Energy | Living Quarters, upper catwalk room with school desks and a switched off projector. Inside the bottom wooden box in a stack on the large desk. |
Vault 106 | Skill Book | Lockpick | The science area: after going down both flights of stairs, there is a room to your right with two visible lockers. In the back of this room on the left. |
Vault 108 | Bobblehead | Charisma | Cloning Lab, in the middle of that map, on top of a table in a large room with four beds in the central room, south of the clinic room. |
Vault 108 | Skill Book | Lockpick | Entrance floor in a small storage room adjacent to the malfunctioning generator. Behind several yellow metal crates is an metal ladder on top of which is a Nuka-Cola Quantum, book is under the ladder, but apparently inaccessible. Try to throw grenade inside ladder, blast may launch book on more accessible place. |
Vault 108 | Skill Book | Speech | Cloning Lab, on a table in the same room as the Charisma Bobblehead. |
Vault 87 | Skill Book | Energy | In a box near a stone statue in the reaction chamber. |
Vault 92 | Skill Book | Barter | In the supply room, on the shelf just behind Supply Room Terminal. |
Vault 92 | Skill Book | Energy | Near the studio computer. |
Vault 92 | Skill Book | Explosives | In the Overseer's office on a shelf. |
Vault 92 | Skill Book | Medicine | In the southern most room of the Living Quarters, on a table next to a Laboratory terminal. |
Vault 92 | Skill Book | Repair | On a shelf in the destroyed barn to the west. |
Vault-Tec Headquarters | Skill Book | Barter | In the Guest Relations area after you come down from Administration. |
Vault-Tec Headquarters | Skill Book | Melee | On a desk on the top floor of the Vault-Tec Office. |
Vault-Tec Headquarters | Skill Book | Science | Corporate offices, it's sitting on a wall shelf hanging over open air on the second floor. You must jump to reach it, or crawl slowly on the bit of remaining floor, while looking up to the shelf. The book is on its side, barely hanging over the edge. |
Vault-Tec Headquarters | Skill Book | Unarmed | On a desk on the top floor of the Vault-Tec Office. |
Vernon East/Takoma Park | Skill Book | Speech | Coming into the Vernon East/Takoma Park metro from Vernon Square East, you'll find one just a few feet away in a ticket booth. |
Vernon Square | Skill Book | Repair | In a small sewer area marked as 'Sewer Entrance' (not the sewer down the crater) on the local map in Vernon Square (at the end alley to the right of Cinema, opposite the Statesman Hotel). The book is on a table behind an Average locked door along with a Sawed-Off Shotgun. |
Vernon Square East | Skill Book | Medicine | In the crater with the crashed spaceship, take the sewer entrance. Kill the super mutants inside their small hideout and you're free to take it. Note: You'll need a large amount of RadAway and Rad-X, as this is possibly the second highest concentration of radiation in the game (40 rads/sec). |
Warrington Station | Skill Book | Repair | Past the beds where you meet Roy Phillips, hang left and enter the storage room. It's on the shelf left of you when entering. Use the step ladder to see it, or just jump. |
Warrington Station | Skill Book | Science | On a desk in the room with the door to the Metro Access & Generator |
Wasteland Survival Guide | Skill Book | Science | One of the rewards of the Wasteland Survival Guide quest, after completing the part about RobCo Facility. |
Wheaton Armory | Skill Book | Big Guns | In a room full of weapons on the bottom floor behind a very hard door or a very hard terminal. |
White House | Skill Book | Sneak | Inside a Brotherhood of Steel compound in a hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue. Must be stolen. |
WKML Broadcast Station | Bobblehead | Explosives | Sealed Cistern, the sewer (manhole cover) behind the station. The manhole cover is tucked into the rocks. (See page for image) |
Yao guai tunnels | Bobblehead | Sneak | Yao guai den, on top of a metal box north east of the big pool of water. |
Yao Guai Tunnels | Skill Book | Melee | On a ledge accessible after passing through the Yao Guai Den next to a Raider corpse. |
Yao Guai Tunnels | Skill Book | Unarmed | On a ledge accessible after passing through the Yao Guai Den next to a Raider corpse. |